This was a really good book except for the huge part in the middle where she is stuck in the heart of her mentor. The false realities were confusing, and didn’t seem to have any other basis in the world. I can appreciate the way she put the chambers of the heart together with the different emotions, but I didn’t enjoy the listen. I very much enjoyed the teaching phase early on, and the battle part at the end. I’ll certainly read Glass Magician when it comes out.
This book was not that good. The way in which Steel World was amusing isn’t in this series, but it has the same hero complex. For some reason without the silliness of the hero included the whole formula for a good overpowered sci-fi adventurer falls apart. I got a bit of enjoyment from it, but it wasn’t a series I’d read further into.
This was another amusing case of the Hero being too pivotal, as well as too macho. He was an amazing killer that just wants everyone to get along. That said I find it amusing as a story and would love to read more. This book like Steel world is especially amusing when they come in contact with the admin aliens.
I really liked this book, and the series is exciting to me. The main character has too much of the hero complex, and is too disobedient for it to make much sense. Other than that, somewhat because of that, the series is very amusing. The times that the main character comes in contact with the admin aliens is very amusing since it always seems to work out in his favor.
I liked the story, but some parts of it seemed like the people weren’t behaving as they should. The parts where they didn’t listen to each other were especially hard to understand and accept. I really liked the ending, especially with the person destroying and escaping from silo 1.
I thought this was a very well done series, but the acceleration at the end was a bit disappointing. The series had a huge build up and the ending was so quick. I really liked the way they went from a normal world, to conspiracy, to aliens, to universe war. The final enemy serpentine army defeat was super disappointing in how it happened, but the way the main bad guy was defeated was great. I really loved his ending. The world that was built wasn’t well flushed out, but I really liked the parts that were.
This was an interesting book, set in a post apocalyptic future of underground isolated cities. I really liked the build up of information. There seems to be more from the same author so I’ll have to figure out the ordering and keep the story going. I don’t know if I’ll be doing it right now. The other stories in the series seem to be of different times, not story continuations. I’m more interested in the after than the before, so Dust will probably be the next I go for in this series.
This was a very strange book, although I knew that going in. The ideas in it are ones that I’d like to think could never happen, and some of them won’t due to the internet. At the same time, things like wikipedia being changeable make it possible for untrue things to become commonly accepted. There are many examples of this, and the way it can become the readily accepted facts makes it very interesting. The full acceptance without thinking is something that I don’t think could happen. The double think is also something I don’t believe could happen. There is too much going on for it to happen now, and the internet is too untamed, and untamable. The base story itself is just depressing.
I really enjoyed the 7ish mile hike with Jeff and Patty. They are really great to chat with and share a lot of world views that I have. They are active and energetic, but relaxed. I get the feeling that the work at Apple grates on them especially badly since they are of the relaxed temperament. Patty had just left Apple, and she was really enjoying the mini retirement. She is using mainly to get back in touch with friends and previous co-workers. Jeff is working hard, harder than he’d like, and is doing well at Apple.
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